This student-friendly text introduces students to the history and scope of literary theory, as well as showing them how to perform literary analysis.
- Designed to be used alongside primary theoretical texts as an introduction to theory or alongside literary texts as a model for performing literary analysis.
- Presents a series of exemplary readings of particular literary texts such as Jane Eyre, Heart of Darkness, Ulysses, To the Lighthouse and Midnight's Children.
- Provides a brief history of the rise of literary theory in the twentieth century, in order that students understand the historical contexts for different theories.
- Presents an alphabetically organized series of entries on key figures and publications, from Adorno to Žižek.
- Features descriptions of the major movements in literary theory, from critical theory through to postcolonial theory.
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"Castle (Arizona State Univ.) provides cogent summaries of a wide range of literary theories." -CHOICE
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| Introduction |
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The Rise of Literary Theory |
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The Scope of Literary Theory |
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65 | (7) |
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72 | (7) |
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79 | (7) |
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86 | (8) |
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154 | (9) |
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Structuralism and Formalism |
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181 | (10) |
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Key Figures in Literary Theory |
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Mikhail Mikhailovich Bahktin |
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Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari |
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209 | (2) |
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Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar |
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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak |
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245 | (2) |
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Reading with Literary Theory |
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William Shakespeare, The Tempest |
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John Keats, ``Ode on a Grecian Urn'' |
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Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre |
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259 | (5) |
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I lerman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street |
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264 | (3) |
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Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness |
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267 | (5) |
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272 | (3) |
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Virginia Woolf, To The Lighthouse |
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275 | (3) |
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Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God |
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278 | (3) |
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William Butler Yeats, ``Leda and the Swan'' |
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281 | (3) |
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284 | (3) |
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Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children |
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287 | (3) |
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Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus |
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| Conclusion: Reading Literary Theory |
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| Recommendations for Further Study |
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| Glossary |
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Gregory Castle is Professor of English Literature at Arizona State University. His previous books include Modernism and the Celtic Revival (2001), Postcolonial Discourses: An Anthology (Blackwell, 2001), and Reading the Modernist Bildungsroman (2006).
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